Researches find threat from biodiversity loss equals climate change threat

Canadian Press: The accelerating loss of plant and animal species around the planet is becoming as great a threat to global health and prosperity as climate change, concludes a newly published review of hundreds of research studies. "We should be just as worried about biodiversity loss," said Diane Srivastava, a University of British Columbia zoologist who helped write the paper, which appeared this week in the prestigious journal Nature. "One of the intents of this paper is to really demonstrate ... what...

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